A Bash web server
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Article from Issue 250/2021
With one line of Bash code, you can create a Bash web server for quickly viewing the output from Bash scripts and commands.
For people who do a lot of work with command-line tools or Bash code, having a Bash web server could be very handy. I was really amazed that in one line of Bash code I was able to create web servers that could:
- Send the output from a Bash command directly to a browser page
- Create diagnostic pages using standard Linux tools
- Create pages that view Raspberry PI GPIO pins
- Create a page to toggle a Rasp PI GPIO pin
One-Line Web Servers
While a number of minimal, one-line web servers exist in most programming languages [1], you can create a Bash web server using the networking utility nc
(or netcat
) as follows:
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